Excerpt from The Annual Report of the Connecticut Historical Society: Reports and Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 25, 1897; Also a List of Officers and Members and of Donations for the Year Remind by Mi: Assembly. That John Trumbull. Thomas C. Browne. Timothy Pitkin. John S. Peters. William W. Ellsworth. Thomas Day. Thomas Robins. Daniel Burhans. Thomas Hubbard. Isaac Toucey. Nathaniel S. Wheaton. George Sumner. Roger M. Sherman. William T. Williams. Martin Wells. Joseph Battell. William Cooley. Thomas H. Gallaudet. Thomas S. Williams. Eli Todd. Walter Mitchell. George W. Doane. Samuel B. Woodward. S. H. Huntington. Samuel W. Dana. James Gould. Samuel A. Foot. Nathan Johnson. Hawley Olmstead. Benjamin Trumbull. John Hall. And their associ ates and successors. Be. And hereby are ordained. Constituted and declared to be. Forever hereafter. A body corporate. By the name of T In Connecticut Historical Soa'tltv. And by that name. They. Their associates and successors shall and may have perpetual succession; shall be capable of suing and being sued. Pleading and being impleaded. And also to purchase. Receive. Hold and convey any estate. Real or personal. To an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; and may have a common seal. And the same may alter at pleasure; mav establish rules relative to the admission of future members; may ordain. Establish. And put in execution such by-laws and regulations. Not contrary to the prmisions of this charter. Or the laws of this State. As shall be deemed necessary for the government of said corporation. The Governor of this State. The Lieutenant Governor. And the Judges of the Superior Court. Shall be ac ojam members of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.